{"id":94822,"date":"2025-12-20T01:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/94822\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:04:13","slug":"grand-jury-clears-el-paso-county-deputies-in-fatal-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/94822\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Jury clears El Paso County deputies in fatal shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) &#8212; A grand jury finds El Paso County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies not responsible for the <a href=\"https:\/\/krdo.com\/news\/2025\/07\/21\/cspd-investigating-epso-deputy-involved-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 18 shooting that killed 59-year-old Brian Prine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shooting was referred to a grand jury on Dec 15, who &#8220;did not find probable cause to support that either deputy committed any criminal offence&#8221; by Dec. 19. <\/p>\n<p>EPSO said that around 11:32 p.m. on that July evening, deputies responded to a disturbance at a home in the 6500 block of Tranters Creek Way in the Security-Widefield area. According to deputies, they were informed that a neighbor believed a firearm was involved.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say they found a firearm in the driveway of the residence when they arrived. An adult male and an adult female were on the scene, according to EPSO.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the male became aggressive towards deputies and obtained control of a deputy&#8217;s taser while deputies attempted to arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, EPSO says at least two deputies fired at least one round each, striking the suspect. EPSO identified the deputies as <\/p>\n<p>Deputy Brenden\u00a0Koehlinger, employed with the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office since 2018<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Juanito Cuellar, employed with the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office since 2017<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say they began providing medical care to the suspect until medical personnel from the Security Fire Department arrived and took over care. A few minutes later, the suspect was pronounced dead by medical personnel on the scene, according to EPSO.<\/p>\n<p>EPSO says two deputies were injured and taken to a local hospital with minor injuries. No other community members were injured in this incident, according to EPSO.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the shooting, EPSO said Deputies Koehlinger and Cuellar were put on administrative leave. <\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date with the latest local news, sports, and investigations by downloading the KRDO13 app. <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/newschannel-13-krdo-com\/id386843706\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download it from the Apple App Store.<\/a> Android users can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.mylocaltv.krdo&amp;pli=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from Google Play here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) &#8212; A grand jury finds El Paso County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies not responsible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-94822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}